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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2022 18:49:09 GMT
 The Bristol County Ground (also known as Nevil Road and currently known as the Seat Unique Stadium for sponsorship reasons[2]) is a senior cricket venue in Bristol, England. It is in the district of Ashley Down. The ground is home to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. nitially known as Ashley Down Ground, it was bought in 1889 by W. G. Grace and has been home to Gloucestershire ever since. It was sold to local confectionery firm J. S. Fry & Sons and renamed Fry's Ground. The club bought the ground back in 1933 and it reverted to its original name. It was sold again in 1976, this time to Royal & Sun Alliance who renamed the ground the Phoenix County Ground for eight years before changing to The Royal & Sun Alliance County Ground until the ground was again bought by the club and took it up its current title. The ground hosts One Day Internationals, usually one per year, with the addition of temporary seating to increase the ground's capacity. England faced India in 2018 and Pakistan in 2019 at the ground. In addition, three matches were scheduled to be played at the ground as part of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.[3] Of these three, 2 were abandoned without a ball being bowled due to bad weather. The only match played was Australia v Afghanistan - a match Australia won by 7 wickets. The ground has long boundaries in comparison to most county cricket clubs. The former concrete roof over the public terraces, which has now been demolished, was formed from eight hyperbolic-paraboloid umbrellas each approximately 30 square feet (2.8 m2), designed by T.H.B. Burrough in 1960.[4 www.gloscricket.co.uk/www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2654675ONE FROM THE PAST  Walter Reginald Hammond (19 June 1903 – 1 July 1965) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England. Primarily a middle-order batsman, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him in his obituary as one of the four best batsmen in the history of cricket. He was considered to be the best English batsman of the 1930s by commentators and those with whom he played; they also said that he was one of the best slip fielders ever. Hammond was an effective fast-medium pace bowler and contemporaries believed that if he had been less reluctant to bowl, he could have achieved even more with the ball than he did. In a Test career spanning 85 matches, he scored 7,249 runs and took 83 wickets. Hammond captained England in 20 of those Tests, winning four, losing three, and drawing 13. His career aggregate of runs was the highest in Test cricket until surpassed by Colin Cowdrey in 1970; his total of 22 Test centuries remained an English record until Alastair Cook surpassed it in December 2012. In 1933, he set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, surpassed by Len Hutton in 1938. In all first-class cricket, he scored 50,551 runs and 167 centuries, respectively the seventh and third highest totals by a first-class cricketer.
Although Hammond began his career in 1920, he was required to wait until 1923 before he could play full-time, after his qualification to play for Gloucestershire was challenged. His potential was spotted immediately and after three full seasons, he was chosen to visit the West Indies in 1925–26 as a member of a Marylebone Cricket Club touring party, but contracted a serious illness on the tour. He began to score heavily after his recovery in 1927 and was selected for England. In the 1928–29 series against Australia he scored 905 runs, then a record aggregate for a Test series. He dominated county cricket in the 1930s and, despite a mid-decade slump in Test form, was made captain of England in 1938. He continued as captain after the Second World War, but his health had deteriorated and he retired from first-class cricket after an unsuccessful tour of Australia in 1946–47. He appeared in two more first-class matches in the early 1950s.
Hammond was married twice, divorcing his first wife in acrimonious circumstances, and had a reputation for infidelity. His relationships with other players were difficult; teammates and opponents alike found him hard to get along with. He was unsuccessful in business dealings and failed to establish a successful career once he retired from cricket. He moved to South Africa in the 1950s in an attempt to start a business, but this came to nothing. As a result, he and his family struggled financially. Shortly after beginning a career as a sports administrator, he was involved in a serious car crash in 1960 which left him frail. He died of a heart attack in 1965. |
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Post by chris on Jun 25, 2022 18:22:15 GMT
shoddy preview now on the Lancashire website. cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk/news/2022-news/match-preview-gloucestershire-vs-lancashire/First paragraph - in bold font - all about the Warwickshire game: "MATCH PREVIEW: Gloucestershire vs LancashireChasing 329, a target set four overs before the end of day three at Edgbaston last week, Lancashire beat reigning champions Warwickshire by four wickets with 24 balls to spare, riding on a sensational unbeaten 175 for Luke Wells."Later down they write about Croft: "In the Blast, he is the county’s leading run-scorer with 322 from 10 games, including two half-centuries.” ...despite the fact that he (and Lancashire) have played 12 games. Croft now has over 400 runs and 3 half centuries, which kind of underlines that they wrote the article before the Durham game on Thursday but lazily couldn’t be bothered to remember to update it before posting it around 7pm on Saturday. Of course no team / squad news they must be sweating on whether to risk Jennings and Parkinson. Every year, IIRC, Gidney admits the website is awful says they are looking to improve it - nothing ever happens, other than a steady race to the bottom as it gets worse and worse. ETA: There is a 15 player travelling squad on twitter. No: Livingstone, Blatherwick, Hurt or Jones (who is dropped not with standing his 66 against Warwickshire) Boyden included, far be it for me to suggest that he would be better off playing for the seconds at Sale on Monday. Maybe he’ll go there on Sunday night. Bell looks like he will be the only one on the staff playing for the seconds. Maybe Hurt and Jones also. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2022 9:51:53 GMT
 They win toss and bat |
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Post by alanw on Jun 26, 2022 10:39:19 GMT
Pleased to see Jack Morley given a go but bit surprised that he was selected ahead of Hartley.
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Post by richard on Jun 26, 2022 11:16:05 GMT
Glos 12/0. Square covered against the rain.
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Post by Dave Towers on Jun 26, 2022 11:17:40 GMT
Pleased to see Jack Morley given a go but bit surprised that he was selected ahead of Hartley. Likewise, I thought the pecking order would be Parkinson, Hartley then Morley. Not very good at tosses in the CC are we? Anyway, another rain interruption, needless to say the only game affected. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2022 11:34:08 GMT
12.40 restart
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Post by denno97 on Jun 26, 2022 12:30:09 GMT
Hope I’m wrong but judging from the 1st 14 overs this pitch looks dead. Will struggle to get a result out of this with the rain around
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Post by chris on Jun 26, 2022 18:18:46 GMT
3 wickets for Morley on his championship debut. I agree that I still had that pecking order down as Parkinson, Hartley, Morley but I do seem to recollect a short discussion on here in the seconds thread that it appeared that Morley was out bowling - and being bowled more - in seconds games, earlier in the season.
Otherwise, similar story for Lancashire held up by one guy scoring a century and a large late order partnership.
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Post by Dave Towers on Jun 26, 2022 19:06:45 GMT
3 wickets for Morley on his championship debut. I agree that I still had that pecking order down as Parkinson, Hartley, Morley but I do seem to recollect a short discussion on here in the seconds thread that it appeared that Morley was out bowling - and being bowled more - in seconds games, earlier in the season.
Otherwise, similar story for Lancashire held up by one guy scoring a century and a large late order partnership.
Yes, for the umpteenth time this season we've come across a player we haven't been able to shift and who's scored 40% of his team's runs so far. Also the 7th successive lost toss.
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Post by lancsdes on Jun 26, 2022 23:15:05 GMT
I thought Balderson was greatly underused from what I saw. Yes, his first five overs went for 26 but at least eight of them were through the slips, there was a plum LBW and I thought a more imaginative captain would’ve used him more. Certainly the commentators thought he was threatening.
Re the plum LBW, I got all the reviews right tonight on the highlights of the Test without knowing the score. Doesn’t mean I got the Balderson decision right but I couldn’t see how it was missing.
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Post by Admin on Jun 27, 2022 7:02:12 GMT
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Post by exile on Jun 27, 2022 9:54:43 GMT
I agree with Des that Balderson was underused yesterday. Strikes me as an example of T20 thinking infecting the first class game. I also thought the umpire got the lbw wrong but these things happen. Overall, I thought Lancs did well to take 7 wickets on what was a very placid pitch.
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Post by chris on Jun 27, 2022 12:19:54 GMT
I agree with Des that Balderson was underused yesterday. Strikes me as an example of T20 thinking infecting the first class game. I also thought the umpire got the lbw wrong but these things happen. Overall, I thought Lancs did well to take 7 wickets on what was a very placid pitch.
Morley ends with 4/91. Unlikely with the Sandar replacing Williams that he will play in the next three championship matches. They will need Blatherwick to be fit to compensate for the change of bowling styles of the overseas players. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2022 5:48:19 GMT
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